Perhaps you?ve heard? Perhaps you?ve noticed? The infamous ?culture wars? officially declared in the Reagan era and then hissed forth through the years by everyone from George W. Bush to Rick Warren, the Tea Party to groupthink megachurches, Rush Limbaugh?s giant mouth to Bill O?Reilly?s sad little book, Palin and Bachmann and Karl Rove, too, all ultimately landing with an inglorious splat on poor Rick ?please don?t Google my last name? Santorum?s head, the culture wars of yore are essentially over.
And the Republicans lost.
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From environmental awareness to legal pot to abortion rights, movement is toward the progressive ? or at the very least, away from the regressive (not quite the same thing, but in this climate, you take what you can get). Even many leading Republicans don?t want to discuss the classic cultural issues that defined them for so long, recognizing them as toxic to their future, realizing that the younger generations simply don?t believe in the harsh institutions and repressive dogmas of yore.
http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2013/...kos-win-again/
